LaborTech 2015

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The development of communications technology has led to major changes in the production chain. Today through the internet, hundreds of millions of workers are now linked together. Tech workers and millions of other workers are now tethered to the internet 24 hours a day and every keystroke can now be watched by their employers or used as a powerful organizing and communication tool.

Apps are also being use to put workers in a temporary part time economy and change their conditions of work. Many are affected, from taxi workers to call centers as well as healthcare workers and workers in every industry. The gig economy is one where more and more workers have no security and benefits.LaborTech 2015 will look at how this new technology is being used on and by workers and how workers are using communication technology to organize and strengthen democratic rights.
It will also provide instruction on how to build labor channels that can get the stories out to workers and the public locally and internationally.

The introduction of technology into the workplace, the labor and human rights of all workers including the large number of immigrant workers in the tech industry is a prime focus of this conference.
LaborTech 2015 will look at these issues and how labor can address these issues here and internationally.

Started in 1990, LaborTech brings together labor video, and media activists in the US and from around the world to build and develop labor communication systems. Conferences have been held in the United States, Canada, Seoul and Russia. The critical task for labor is to build a labor communication media movement that can tell our stories and break the corporate information blockade in every corner of the world.